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The Saints Row Reboot Arrives In 2022

Set in the 'Weird West', it launches next February
by Oliver VanDervoort on August 26, 2021   

The Saints Row franchise is getting a full reboot and now we know when it's coming. The game was first teased as getting a Gamescom Opening Night Live reveal and that promise was delivered on Wednesday. 

The first thing that needs to be made clear is that this is a full reboot. The references to Steelport, the 3rd Street Saints, Johnny Gat, Kenzie and anything else from the prior series are gone. So is the big boss that players took on in the series. In their place is a group of millennials who form a gang for the simple aim of earning as much money as possible.

This Saints Row game is set in Santo Ileso a stand-in for America’s Four Corners region which the developers are calling the “weird west.” While this is a fictional town, the scenery surrounding the area should give players a feel as though they are in New Mexico or Arizona. That includes quite a bit of dry, arid desert landscape.

Santo Ileso is made up of nine separate districts with each one designed to use a different method of getting around. Running and driving will work best in some regions, while players are encouraged to fly a wingsuit off the top of the financial district’s skyscrapers to cover long distances. Or you can steal a VTOL-equipped craft and just make merry havoc all over the city as you go. The game was built in a brand new, unknown engine and these new environments are designed to take advantage of the power that next-gen consoles — if we can still call them that — can offer.

Developers have called the game a bit of a power fantasy. That's played out by allowing users to purchase and build different businesses and decide where to place them. The choices you make here will, for instance, create public resistance if you start putting toxic waste next to wherever the ultra-wealthy live and work. And, as you take over more of the city, the bigger your power base will grow.

The game's characters will also face off against other gangs in each district and you'll obviously have to take them out in order to take over.

Saints Row is coming to the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and, for PC gamers, the Epic Games Store. The developers said that cross-platform co-op will be available from the start, and you can play the entire campaign through “untethered co-op play.”

All of this will be on display when Saints Row launches on February 25, 2022.

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